The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

Module: PSICOLOGIA DELLO SVILUPPO
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The course aims at in-depth acquisition of the fundamentals of typical and atypical developmental psychology. Will be placed particular emphasis on the appraisal of the psychosocial risk and possible coordinated intervention by the health professions and social work.


Module: CRIMINOLOGIA MINORILE
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The formative objective of the course proposes him to furnish the principal theoretical and methodological knowledges around the themes of the deviance and the juvenile crime with particular respect to the new and emergent crime fattispecies. Close to the study of the active behaviors of the smaller subjects the delicate ones and complexes themes of the abuse and the juvenile (intra and extrafamiliare) maltreatment will be faced with particular rifermento to the processes of survey, signaling, treatment. The course will furnish indications to the students on the competent judicial institutions in juvenile subject

Program

Module: PSICOLOGIA DELLO SVILUPPO
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Definition of typical and atypical developmental psychology.
Psychological development in childhood, adolescence, adulthood. Dynamic theories. Theories of object relations. Attachment theory. Intersubjectivity. Relational and emotional development: the birth of the primary relationship. Origins of psychopathology, the weaknesses and distortions in the primary relationship. Relation between developmental psychology and clinical psychology. Primary prevention and secondary prevention. The institutions in the field of development, the connections and synergies. The clinical intervention in developmental psychology. The clinical utility tools for social workers. The assessment, the interview in childhood, in adolescence, in adulthood. The observation. The diagnostic classifications. Psychopathological organizations. Clinical cases. Risk factors in childhood and adolescence. Attention to familiar contexts. Attention to social contexts. Interventions and practices. The operational integration and networking. Integrated work experience and clinical cases.

Texts for examination:
Barone L. (a cura di) (2010). Manuale di psicologia dello sviluppo. Carocci, Roma.
Fontecedro L. (2009). Psicologia clinica in età evolutiva. Mimesis, Milano.


Module: CRIMINOLOGIA MINORILE
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By the of our presentation and after a short analysis of the concepts of “minor”, “juvenile delinquency” and “deviance”, the study of the biological, psychological and social causes which induce a person to assume delinquent behaviours will be discussed. Afterwards will be presentend the developpement of the historical-legislative course which has characterized the interventions as for juvenile justice.
Expecial attention will be devoted to main question of child abuse and of the competence and responsability of social workers.
On the thematic ones related to the maltreatment and abuse to the infancy: analysis of the phenomenon child abuse, as to make a signaling-report, as to stretch a relationship, as to predispose a plan of intervention and treatment, the balancing between factors of risk and protective factors, the job of net. The normative one in theme of abuse, role and functions of the judicial organs, protocols of collaboration.

Recommended texts
G. De Leo, La devianza minorile, Carocci, Roma , 1998.
G. Mostardi, G. Scardaccione, M. Petrosino, Minori a rischio, Come costruire un progetto di tutela, Franco Angeli, 2006.
U. Sabatello (a cura di) , Bullismo, violenza e gruppo adolescente, Cap. IV, pagg. 67 – 93, del volume , Lo sviluppo antisociale: dal bambino al giovane adulto, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2010.
F. Montecchi, Dal bambino minaccioso al bambino minacciato, Franco Angeli, 2005.
R. Luberti, M.T. Pedrocco Biancardi, La violenza assistita intrafamiliare. Percorsi di aiuto per bambini che vivono in famiglie violente, Franco Angeli, 2005.
Other bibliography will be suitable during the course

Examination Methods

Module: PSICOLOGIA DELLO SVILUPPO
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The examination will be developed in oral form.


Module: CRIMINOLOGIA MINORILE
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the student must take the examination written on the themes above suitable